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by bcbrown 5y ago
It's not quite yak shaving, but it certainly is... something: > I mean, we are running Access in Wine in X11 on Linux in an isolated user account on our server slice that revision controls your Access database in git, and we're
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by bcbrown 5y ago
> We started from the assertion that if a software project loses all of its devs it will not be maintainable anymore by new hires. I recognize that this is due to my imperfect summary/introduction of the paper, but it doesn't m
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by bcbrown 5y ago
Relevant to this article is Peter Naur's paper on Programming as Theory building: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf He argues that the biggest determinant on whether maintainers on a system they did not bu
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by bcbrown 5y ago
One thing I've been curious about for a while now is exactly what sort of food goes into a three month emergency supply. I don't generally eat canned/preserved foods, so I can't just buy a three month supply of the food
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by bcbrown 5y ago
> That, of course, would be absurd. If anyone is actually interviewing people that way, they're doing a terrible job. Perhaps you have never experienced that sort of interview, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I was o
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by bcbrown 5y ago
> Technological fields are blue oceans where only junior people spend significant time near the safe harbors. Experienced people have sailed far away and seen lands you don't know about yet. I really like this analogy.
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by bcbrown 5y ago
This is pure speculation, but perhaps it has to do with executable lookup. How should you execute a binary in the current working directory? `./bin_file` is very convenient.
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by bcbrown 5y ago
Try reading the same sort of books you'd stay up late as a kid to read.
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This is almost exactly my approach to testing. I'm going to have to save this for sharing with teammates.
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It has nothing to do with Hegel and Marx in this case, if you read the article. Around the time of the Cultural Revolution, Xi was banished to "a miserably poor mountain village", where the only book available was Goethe's Fa
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by bcbrown 5y ago
Do something small, submit on your timesheet, and then ask for feedback. If they don't like it, it's just a couple hours, so less of a big deal than a couple days or weeks of work. If you ask your boss for feedback on what's
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by bcbrown 5y ago
The linked text is titled "Biological Decomposition of Solid Wood". It's pretty fascinating, and also covers destructive decomposition mechanisms.
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> Every option doubles the amount of testing required to exhaustively test the program. True, but pairwise-independent combinatorial testing provides almost-exhaustive coverage with non-exponential growth in test cases: https:/&#x2
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by bcbrown 5y ago
All my experience is with the job market in Seattle. A decade ago I took a job at 80k (via craigslist), against competing offers around 95k, because it involved NLP and Hadoop. A year later I got a 40% raise to a Series E startup that ultim
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by bcbrown 5y ago
Coasting is getting your kicks outside of work hours.
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Are you worried about that intermediate call changing between the dry run and the actual run? That can be avoided by saving the execution plan and allowing the actual run to load the execution plan from the dry run.
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by bcbrown 5y ago
You're not listening to what I'm saying. I'm not talking about carbon sequestration, I'm refuting the argument that "once trees have grown tall enough, they tend to slow down". Here, I pulled a source for you:
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by bcbrown 5y ago
Ah, that makes some sense, thanks.
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> Once trees have grown tall enough, they tend to slow down, so you'd expect them to not grab as much carbon anymore. I don't think that's accurate (or at least not very precise). Studies have shown that when evaluating th
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I don't understand the benefit - either system can accurately represent any integer number of pounds, right? And as you said, after a while the "weird" numbers become normalized after a little while. And it seems like you nee
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by bcbrown 6y ago
I feel similarly. I find the most satisfaction in maintenance of an existing system, as opposed to greenfield development. Finding the optimal way to add new features inside an existing system is deeply satisfying. Improving tooling and inf
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by bcbrown 6y ago
This seems very telling: > I no longer work at Gojek
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Some species are specifically adapted to either be able to survive frequent brush fires, and some even require them for seedlings. Douglas-fir trees have very thick, insulative bark that prevents the live tissue from dying as readily when t
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by bcbrown 6y ago
I played around with programming as a kid, programming things like Mandelbrot sets on my TI calculator. In college I didn't take a single CS class, other than a EE signals class using Matlab. I graduated with a degree in Physics. After
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by bcbrown 6y ago
Yeah, you're probably right.
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Sir Tristram: Tristran is the hero of Tristan and Iseult, introducing the theme of the two lovers. Also referencing the Earl of Tristram, lord of Howth Castle from the prior paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl
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by bcbrown 6y ago
On codebases that have had this sort of mass file-moving, one tactic I've used is keeping a link to the commit prior to the file-moving. Then I can check out that version, manually browse to the file's prior location, and use git
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by bcbrown 6y ago
Nice launch! Here's some feedback: At first I found it hard to find the "next" arrow at the bottom. After scrolling through the first page, I gave up trying to find the next arrow and moved on to looking at the filters. Becau
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by bcbrown 6y ago
The Seattle Art Museum does this. There's an attached/affiliated gallery that sells art, and also provides rentals, as long as you're also a member of SAM. It's 10% of the price to rent for 3 months, renewable once, and
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by bcbrown 7y ago
Here's one of my favorite passages from a field guide: Silent flight enables owls in flight to hear the movements of small rodents, while in turn it keeps the sharp-eared prey in the dark over someone coming for dinner. This tempts one

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